A Michael Broad Blog
Anna Maxted is a well-known Times journalist. She is a cat lover and so are her children. She had until recently two domestic cat companions, one a non-purebred and the other a purebred Bengal. She has written a very long and detailed article expressing her grief on the sudden death of her Bengal cat. …
Perhaps in France grieving over the passing of a loved pet is a societal taboo and in which case the writer for Le Monde is correct but I don’t think he is. I think he/she is out of date in their thinking. They were writing about a gym teacher’s elegy in a novel which …
In other words how long is the grieving process on the passing of your cat companion? It’s like asking how long is a piece of string? There is no fixed answer despite what the experts might say on the Internet. The Psychology Today website suggests that for “one individual, it may take four months …
A recent story by Elisa, prompts me to write this article. In that story a young female employee at a fast food chain insisted on taking a day off on the death of her beloved dog and she was sacked because she couldn’t find a replacement. I have thought about the question and come …
People ask why this white cat is so interested in this man’s grave. The deceased man loved cats. The white cat tries to scrape and get at the man’s corpse. Relatives surrounding the grave try to pull the cat off. They are bemused. What is going on? There are two possibilities. The cat is …
This tabby-and-white cat living in Central Java, Indonesia constantly returns to her late owner’s grave and has effectively lived on and around it for a year. She nuzzles the gravestone. She cries by the gravestone. She walks to her former home (the home of her deceased owner) daily to be fed by the old …
In an internet environment filled with animal cruelty and school violence, I found it nice to come across an article about the love a group of students in Texas felt for their teacher. According to a May 9 report by ABC News, four students at Joshua High School learned their College Statistics class teacher …
There is a dichotomy between the way employers deal with bereavement concerning the passing of a relative and the passing of a cat despite the fact that for many people the death of a beloved cat companion is more painful than that of their parents or a sibling. There is often a disconnect between …
